Akylina can be celebrated on 2 feasts in the Orthodox calendar. People keep the feast of the saint they were named for, or the one their family has always kept.
Every feast on which Akylina is celebrated
| New Calendar | Feast | Old Calendar (civil date) |
|---|---|---|
| May 9 | Aquilina and Kallinike | May 22 |
| September 27 | Akylina of Zagliveri | October 10 |
The saints behind the name
Aquilina and Kallinike
May 9, Holy Woman, Ακυλίνα και Καλλινίκη
The synaxarion honors the holy women Aquilina and Kallinike on May 9, recording that they suffered for Christ. The details of their martyrdom are not preserved.
Akylina of Zagliveri
September 27, Holy Woman, Ακυλίνα
St. Akylina was born at Zagliveri near Thessaloniki in the eighteenth century. Tradition relates that her father, having become a Muslim, was pressed to bring his daughter to Islam; raised in the faith by her mother, she refused before the Turkish judge and was beaten to death in 1764, at the age of eighteen.
Also celebrating with Akylina
These names share the feast, many of them other forms of the same name:
Aquilina, Kalliniki, Callinice, Akilina
What to say on a name day
The Greek wish is Χρόνια Πολλά (Chronia Polla), “many years.” A call or a short message on the day is what people remember. See name day wishes you can send and what a name day is.